COMPLETE ARTERIAL REVASCULARIZATION USING THE MAMMARY Y-GRAFT

The recent trend is to revascularize the entire heart with arterial gr afts. Five selected patients were operated using the mammary Y-graft f or complete arterial revascularization. The immediate postoperative co urses were uneventful. One patient presented five months later with at ypical angina and a string phenomenon at the distal part of the Y-graf t on catheterization, without ischemic changes on stress test. The fou r other patients had no complaints and no ischemic changes on stress t est nine months to 4.5 years later. Using the mammary Y-graft a comple te arterial revascularization can be accomplished.